The Bennums: Missionaries

Wednesday, August 6, 2008

Missionaries

We live in a very small town and there are only about 40 active people in our branch. Therefore, not many people to feed the missionaries. They like to come over to our house for dinner and to share messages with us (and hang out of course). We are trying to decide who has the bigger belly... Elder Johnson when pushing out, or me at 6 months pregnant. You decide. Elder Johnson is in orange and he is from Centerville, Utah. He went to Viewmont High School, which is where I went my sophomore year of high school. In the grey shirt is Elder Nay and he is from Kearns, Utah and went to Kearns High School where Jeff and I coached and I taught last year. Small world I guess!

2 comments:

Nate and Jacque Holt said...: what are the odds of that?? looks like you are meant to be there!; August 13, 2008 at 12:35 PM
Kathy J said...: It really is a small world! I'm Elder Johnsons mom from Centerville. Thanks for feeding him occasionally. From the looks of it he is eating well. Good luck with your baby. Tell Elder J we love him!; August 18, 2008 at 5:56 PM

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Our Testimony

Jeff and I are both members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints and we wanted to share how grateful we are for that blessing. We believe the Book of Mormon and the Bible are the word of God and we learn so much as we read from them. We know that families can be together forever, even after death, if we choose to make that covenant with God in his holy temple. We believe that Joseph Smith was a prophet of God and was led by God to restore the truth on the earth. He went through so much persecution and dedicated his life so that we could have the Gospel of Christ today. We also believe President Monson to be our prophet today, we believe he communicates with God and leads us to live good lives so we can return to live with our father in heaven once again. The more we pray, read the scriptures, and learn about the gospel, the more we feel the holy spirit in our lives. As we do these things we can see our lives and our marriage being blessed and our happiness increased. We know we have made so many mistakes in each of our lives respectively and we are so amazed that our savior Jesus Christ can help us to be forgiven for those things. We love the joy and happiness that the gospel of christ brings us everyday. Jeff even dedicated two years of his life to sharing that truth because he believes in it so much and wanted to bring other people that happiness. I am so thankful that he made that sacrifice because I can see the blessings that came from it. We are not posting this to try to force our views on anyone, we just wanted to let everyone know how thankful we are for the Lord's blessings and for his guidance in our lives. We have also been so blessed with amazing family and friends to give us support and love along our way. Thank you being there for us and thank you for letting us share our love of Christ and our testimony of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints.